dave@etsu.CMI.COM (David Halonen) (12/01/89)
In one of Don Knuth's books, he refers to a language called 'MIX'. This language is supposed to run on some fictious machine, where the language specifically was designed to take advantage of the machines architecture. Such a machine has probably never been built. However, since MIX was designed to be a program for teaching, it seems that someone should have built a simulator for this? According to the Knuth's book, this has been done (in 1973). The obvious question is: has a MIX simulator ever been created for the Mac? How about the IBM PC? thanks, David Halonen, Center for Machine Intelligence, Electronic Data Systems Ann Arbor, MI (313) 995-0900 AppleLink: N0548 Internet: dave@cmi.com
kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) (12/01/89)
In article <1099@etsu.CMI.COM> dave@etsu.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen) writes:
.In one of Don Knuth's books, he refers to a language called 'MIX'.
.This language is supposed to run on some fictious machine, where the
.language specifically was designed to take advantage of the machines
.architecture. Such a machine has probably never been built. However,
.since MIX was designed to be a program for teaching, it seems that
.someone should have built a simulator for this? According to the
.Knuth's book, this has been done (in 1973). The obvious question is:
.has a MIX simulator ever been created for the Mac? How about the IBM PC?
You can get a pretty good simulation of MIX on a Burroughs 220 computer.
Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)